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October 15, 2025
Don’t Choose Your Own Adventure: Understanding Middle-Class Earnings Trends
…includes the disabled and sick. It includes homemakers. Moreover, it includes part-year and part-time workers. If the relative sizes of these groups change over time, that can affect earnings trends….
August 8, 2025
Revise the Messenger
…without any credible evidence. He clearly hopes to find someone who will deliver not the accurate numbers necessary for businesses, policymakers, savers, investors, students, and parents to make informed decisions,…
April 28, 2025
You Autor Know
…of the century made or led by US policymakers: the granting to China of permanent normal trade relations status in 2000 and the concurrent acceptance of China into the World…
April 15, 2025
Is There Really Pent-Up Demand for Ten Times the Manufacturing Jobs We Have?
…they’d be better off working—period. It’s hardly a special endorsement of factory jobs. There’s a similar ambiguity for people who are neither working nor looking for work. Among homemakers, for…
March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…not CBO’s 154 percent. Given this unprecedented situation, you might expect federal policymakers to prioritize deficit reduction this year. But the recently passed House budget resolution would add around $3 trillion to the…
March 24, 2025
Keeping Medicaid Sustainable While Prioritizing the Vulnerable
…and benefits of various reform proposals affecting children, working-age adults, and the elderly? How can policymakers best prioritize vulnerable populations as they debate ways to make Medicaid spending growth sustainable?…
February 18, 2025
Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress
…marriage penalties are three specific areas of interest to lawmakers who want to make America more family friendly. Read the PDF. Introduction America is in a baby bust, with birth…
January 7, 2025
Tax Policy Should Prioritize Shoring Up the Family
…have kids and rely on a sole breadwinner were thwarted by objections that a child allowance would also promote single-parent families in which no one worked. Policymakers seeking to use…
December 20, 2024
Fixing Inflation, Right-Sizing the Federal Government
…(GDP)—a level not seen since 1958. When the 119th Congress and the second presidency of Donald Trump begin next month, policymakers will face a much more daunting fiscal crisis. Federal…
October 11, 2024
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
…less than we used to, and we provide each other less social support. Rather than owning up to our glaring social poverty problem, policymakers have focused instead on relieving economic…